STEVIEBOY1
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I Visited Pickering for 3 nights over the Easter Weekend to travel on the NYMR.
As always it's a great line, my favorite of all the preserved railways, no disrespect to the others all of which are good.
You get a good long ride from Pickering to Whitby, not sure if that make this the longest preserved line in the UK?
(I think the Severn Valley Rly & WSMR are quite long too.)
In particular I was very impressed with the speed of the shunting procedures at Whitby and loco changes at Grosmont. It's a shame there is not a loop in Whitby Station as having a loop would make the operations there so much easier, but I guess that is up to network rail.
The times were all quite good too. Services seemed to be well used and the Whitby trains very popular.
I wonder where all the LNER Teak carriages were though, there did not seem to be many about unlike previous years.
As always it's a great line, my favorite of all the preserved railways, no disrespect to the others all of which are good.
You get a good long ride from Pickering to Whitby, not sure if that make this the longest preserved line in the UK?
(I think the Severn Valley Rly & WSMR are quite long too.)
In particular I was very impressed with the speed of the shunting procedures at Whitby and loco changes at Grosmont. It's a shame there is not a loop in Whitby Station as having a loop would make the operations there so much easier, but I guess that is up to network rail.
The times were all quite good too. Services seemed to be well used and the Whitby trains very popular.
I wonder where all the LNER Teak carriages were though, there did not seem to be many about unlike previous years.